LADYBUG NEWS Educating and Caring For Your Children For More Than 33 Years Donuts with Dads When: Friday, June 19th Where: Ladybug Classrooms Time: 8:30-9:15 am We love our Ladybug Dad’s! June 2015 Thank you for being part of our Ladybug family. Ladybug teachers are pleased to create this monthly newsletter for you because you are important to us and we truly appreciate you. Please feel free to share this newsletter with friends and family. Happy reading! Mark Your Calendars! June 5th Last day of school You Are My Sunshine, My Only Sunshine… It’s that time of year again….sunscreen time! Practicing sun safety during childhood plays an important role in the prevention of skin cancer. One severe sunburn can damage a child’s skin and double the risk of developing skin cancer later in life. The staff at Ladybug would like to work with you in providing the best possible sun protection for your “bug”. To keep all our “bugs” safe, please make sure your child has: Sunscreen applied before arrival each day. A new bottle of sunscreen so we can apply it after naptime. A completed medication authorization form so we have permission to apply the sunscreen. A wide brimmed hat and sunglasses labeled with their name. Thank you for helping Ladybug protect your little one from the sun! June 19th Donuts for Dads July 15th Parent Appreciation Mission At Ladybug Child Care Center, our mission is to provide a joyful learning experience for your family that empowers your children to reach their educational and personal potential while lovingly nurturing their selfconfidence and selfesteem. Summer List of things to do in Carver County LOCAL CELEBRATIONS Hamburg – Zummerfest June 19 & 20 St. Boni. - Spass-Tagen “Fun Days” June 27 OUTDOOR FUN Go Swimming Chanhassen - July 4th Celebration July 2-4 Take a nature walk Taste of Minnesota – Waconia July 2-5 Go Biking Mayer - Rising Festival July 11 Go Roller Blading Watertown - Rails to Trails July 17-July 18 Have a picnic 859 Vista Boulevard 952-442-5057 www.ladybugcc.com Have a water balloon fight Cologne - Glad Days July 23-July 25 LADYBUG PRESCHOOL LEARNING CENTER AND ADVENTURECENTRE Scavenger Hunt Chaska - River City Days July 24-26 Carver County Fair – Waconia August 5-9 Visit local sculptures Victoria – Volksfest August 14 & 15 Go Hiking NYA - Stiftungsfest August 28-30 Carver – Steamboat Days September 11-13 Waconia - Nickel Dickle Day September 19 Management Team Stacey Knickrehm Watch a parade - list coming soon! Visit local playground [email protected] Play Horseshoes Go Mini-golfing Katie Klover Play Tennis [email protected] Play a game of Basketball Katie Rickert Make a sandcastle VISIT LOCAL BUSINESSES Visit a Museum Go Bowling Visit local playground Visit Pet Store Play Horseshoes Go Mini-golfing Take a Painting Class [email protected] Play Hopscotch Color with sidewalk chalk Plant a garden Build a fairy house Go out to eat on Kid’s Night Corporate Office Connie Kraus—President Michelle Kraus- Play Tennis Make a craft at Home Depot Vice President Play a game of Basketball Sign up for an Art Class sknick- [email protected] Spend a night at local Hotel Go to a Baseball game Visit local Farm Entertainment at local libraries Visit the Arboretum – Free Day (August 14) Stephen KrausVice President [email protected] FUN AT HOME Host a sleepover or backyard camp-out MAKE DELICIOUS TREATS TO Julie Kauffmann - EAT Accounting Associate Indoor games to beat the heat Make Homemade Ice Cream Host a movie night with friends Try a Watermelon Salsa Read a book Stuffed Strawberries for the Fourth Make Play Dough of July Create a dancing ribbon Make your own fruit pops Create a Scrapbook Have S’mores Pancakes for Breakfast Make your own bubble wand Satisfy a sweet tooth with Lemonade Experiment with science Pie Play a board game or puzzle Picnic Perfect Peanut Butter Brownie www.carver.macaronikid.com At Ladybug Child Care Center, we will prepare your child’s heart, mind, and body to ensure their success as a life long learner. [email protected] Nursery Benefits of Baby Sign Language Baby Sign Language has three categories of benefits: 1.Practical: less fussing and more fun, Fewer Tantrums and More Fun When babies can’t communicate constructively they get frustrated, leading to tantrums and meltdowns. We have all experienced the feeling of helplessness, trying to bring comfort to an inconsolable baby, guessing at what they want. Baby Sign Language lets your baby communicate what they want. They can tell you if they want their teddy bear, when they are hungry, if it is too hot, or if their tummy is hurt. Families that sign report that both parents and child experience less frustration. Spending hours trying to guess why your baby is distraught is an unenjoyable way to lose a night of sleep. With Baby Sign Language, both you and your baby address the root cause of these tantrums and spend more time enjoying each other’s company. 2.Emotional: creates a closer parental bond, Enjoy a Closer Bond When you and your baby are able to communicate, it forges a closer bond. When you and your baby can understand each other it increases the feeling of closeness. Studies report emotional benefits including: Parents and children that sign, report feeling closer and more tuned in to each other Babies that sign have fewer moments of distress Reminders Please bring in summer extra cloths for under your baby’s crib. As the weather gets nicer we will be going outside. If you would like your child to have sunscreen on while outside, please bring in a bottle. We apply it before we go outside in the afternoons. If you would like your child to have it on in the mornings, please apply it be- Parents report feeling better about themselves and more confident about parenting 3.Cognitive: boosts brain development, A Smarter Baby Early exposure to signing helps a baby develop their language and reasoning skills. While other babies are still yelling to get what they want, signing babies are learning how to communicate with words and simple phrases. fore they come to Ladybug. Studies show long-term cognitive benefits including: Make sure to look at the bottom of your child’s daily +12 IQ point advantage sheet every day where it says “extra supplies”, if any are Larger speaking vocabulary & forming longer sentences circled, please bring in the extra supplies as soon as Earlier reading, and larger reading vocabulary possible. Check parent cubbies every night. Take a look at the parent board to see what we did “for the love of children” Miss Katie R. that day. “for the love of children” Miss Katie R. Better grades in school Reference: http://www.babysignlanguage.com Playroom Happy June! During the month of June, each of our little ladybugs will explore different sensory items such as water play, sensory bags and digging those toes into some grass. The kids love art and we have plenty of butterfly, bug and summer art for the children. Sunscreen We have lots going on in the classroom! I am so excited that we can get outside in the morning and the afternoon. We are fortunate to have a playground that is quite shaded from the sun and wind, making it enjoyable for all of our babies. The kids clothing and feet do get dirty when we go outside, so an extra set of outside clothes and socks/shoes are not a bad idea! We would be happy to change them into their “outdoor” clothes before going out to play. I want to thank you for applying sunscreen to your child in the morning before they come. The infant staff will re-apply it in the afternoon before we go outside. “for the love of children” Miss Ellen Classroom Tidbits *Willa and Desmond will be moving to Toddler A! *Arianna turns 1 this month. Happy Birthday!!!! Signing pictures from signwithme.com How to Pick Sunscreen: Use a sunscreen that says “broad-spectrum” on the label - that means it will screen out both UVB and UVA rays. Use a sunscreen with an SPF (sun protection factor) of at least 15. The higher the SPF, the more UVB protection the sunscreen has. Look for the new UVA “star” rating system on the label. One star is low UVA protection. Two stars is medium protection. Three stars is high protection. Four stars is the highest UVA protection available in an over-the-counter sunscreen product. For sensitive areas of the body, such as the nose, cheeks, tops of the ears, and the shoulders, choose a sunscreen or sunblock with zinc oxide or titanium dioxide. While these products usually stay visible on the skin even after you rub them in, some now come in fun colors that kids enjoy. Sunscreen for Babies: For babies younger than 6 months: Use sunscreen on small areas of the body, such as the face, if protective clothing and shade are not available. For babies older than 6 months: Apply to all areas of the body, but be careful around the eyes. If your baby rubs sunscreen into her eyes, wipe the eyes and hands clean with a damp cloth. If the sunscreen irritates her skin, try a different brand or try a sunscreen stick or sunscreen or sunblock with titanium dioxide or zinc oxide. If a rash develops, talk with your child’s doctor. How to Apply Sunscreen: Use enough sunscreen to cover all exposed areas, especially the face, nose, ears, feet, and hands and even the backs of the knees. Rub it in well. Apply sunscreen 15 to 30 minutes before going outdoors to give time for the sunscreen to bind and absorb into to the skin. Use sunscreen any time you or your child might sunburn. Remember that you can get sunburn even on cloudy days. Also, UV rays can bounce back from water, sand, snow, and concrete so make sure you’re protected. Source: American Academy of Pediatrics Summer Is On Its Way! Toddler A Wow! The month of May came and went so quickly. It’s hard to believe summer is just around the corner. We Goals and had so much fun last month with our “Muddy Puddles”, “May Concepts Flowers” and “Bees and Bugs” unit. The toddlers had a blast Math: jumping in all the “puddles” doing a mud walk and sponge painting pigs in the mud. During our May Flowers we pretended to be flowers blooming and blowing in the field and made many beautiful flowers. We finished the month with learning about Bees and Older Toddlers: Introduce the square shape during group Bugs, this theme was the top hit for the month. The toddlers had a time, table time, and blast playing in the sensory tub filled with “bugs and butterflies” and floor play. reading all about different “for the love of children” Miss Kristina bugs. TEDDY BEARS AND THINGS THAT MOVE June will be a fun month as well. Our first unit is “Things that move” and our second unit is “Teddy Bear’s Picnic.” During “Things that move”, we will be exploring all creatures and interesting vehicles that move. We will also learn about the ways our bodies move. During “Teddy Bear’s Picnic”, we will explore the idea of a picnic with our furry friends and *Sunscreen can be brought in-make sure a medication form is filled out. Please remember that you are to put the first application on in the morning before you arrive and we will re-apply it in the afternoon. *Also it is a violation to have diapers and wipes in the cubbies, therefore if there are any extra diapers or wipes that don’t fit in the children’s diaper bins please take them back home. * Just a reminder that we do go outside every day-lately twice a day, and the children do tend to get a little dirty. Getting dirty is the fun way to be a kid. They are learning so much by just being in an outdoor environment. There is so much for them to see and touch and physically do. Please excuse the little dirty messes we may make! Make sure there are at least two different changes of clothes here for your child. For those really big messes! * Thank you all for being such great parents and allowing us to spend this much time with your children. It is a privilege. Young Toddlers: Learn to sit for group time. Older Toddlers: Learn to use our words to get what we want or need. Personal and Social even have a snack picnic with them! Reminders: Language Arts: Growth: Happy, Happy Father’s Day! Young Toddlers: (sung to the tune of To feel secure with “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”) Here’s a little song to say, “Happy, Happy Father’s Day!” No one’s father is so sweet, Your kind ways just can’t be beat. Happy, Happy Father’s Day; I love you in a big, big way! staff and their environment. Older Toddlers: To learn self-help skills that are onestep problems (take cup to sink, put on sock, pick up shoes.) Toddler B Here comes summer….. The month of June brings the themes “The Great Outdoors” and “Red, White and Blue” to the Toddler B classroom. Our ‘bugs’ are going to love having a picnic snack, making S’mores, and going on nature hunts. The toddlers will be working on identifying objects by size such as small, medium and large, name recognition, and identifying the star shape and the colors red, white and blue. Oh, what fun we had in May! As we wrap up the month of May we also wrap up the themes “Bugs and Buddies” and “Muddy Puddles”. During these themes, the kids had a chance to plant grass seeds and watch them grow…..slowly. They also had so much fun learning how to make mud (ask them, and they will say water and dirt). And the best part was making and eating “Cups of Dirt”! A wonderful concoction of chocolate pudding, Oreo cookies, and a gummy worm! Or as most Toddlers say, “Dummy worms”. Look What We Will Be Learning! Math: Identify the shape: star Identify the colors: red, white, and blue Identify objects by size – small, medium, and large THE GREAT OUTDOORS AND RED, WHITE, AND BLUE Language Arts: The children will be able to listen to a This month, the toddlers are going to learn so many new things! The first unit of the month is called “The Great Outdoors”! It is all about what we smell, see, and do outside! The toddler will: Learn about camping and supplies needed to camp story Recall words in a song or finger plays Music: Will be given the opportunity to explore different types of musical in- Learn about trees, nature, and pine cones Learn about animals that live in the wood and forests struments Create great animal art using different media Use pine cones to practice small, medium, and large and counting to 10 Personal & Social Growth: Have a picnic selves when finished eating. Go on nature hunts in our backyard (I can’t wait to see what they find!) They will use walking feet while in- “Red, White, and Blue” is the last unit of the month. The toddlers will: Make S’mores (a little sticky, but oh so good), and make red, white, and blue pudding Learn and search for the colors red, white, and blue Jump like fireworks Create lots of “sparkly” art Learn new songs including “Yankee Doodle” Have a parade around Ladybug Draw stars and search our room for the shapes of love e r th n” “fo ldre i h c y tne r u o sC Mis The children will clean up after them- doors. They will help clean up toys when they are finished with them. Work on manners – please and thank you. Physical: We will work on fine motor skills through daily activities Proddlers June Goals and June Themes Concepts Creepy Crawlers Your little bugs will spend two weeks talking about all the little creepy crawlers! To work on our counting and math skills we will go on a nature walk behind the playground and count bugs. The kids will tell stories and sing songs on our walk; as well as working on their personal and social growth Math Counting 0-20 Review geometric shapes (circle, square, triangle, skills (walking together as a group, taking turns)! We will make many art projects including pretty ladybugs and even some wiggly spiders! Cattails and Lilly Pads oval and rectangles) Patterning A-B-A Language Arts High hopping frogs and slow moving turtles, what could be better? We will work on our body parts compared to frogs and turtles and the similarities and differences. We will also learn a bunch of new songs and work on our mommies’ and daddies’ names. Down on the Farm print sion. This would be a great time to check out a farm with your family, if you have a family farm you could visit, or check out Gale Woods Farm in Minnetris- Read stories and be read to “The farmer in the dell, the farmer in the dell. Hi-ho the derry-o, the different animals on the farm, it will serve to be an awesome source of discus- Name letters in own names farmer in the dell.” From counting little “piggys” on our feet to knowing all the Identify own name in Music Experiment with loud/ soft and fast/slow Sing short songs the Proddlers an experience they won’t forget and lots of Clap patterns family time!! Personal and Social Growth ta, or even the Minnesota Zoo! It is a great way to give Yee Haw … lots of learning goin’ on!! what they are for “for the love of children” Miss Amber Warm weather is finally here, which means time for sunscreen! We ask you to apply sunscreen to your bug in the morning before dropping them off. We will apply sunscreen in the afternoon before going outside. Please remember to bring home your little one’s sweatshirts. With the mornings be chilly and the evenings being warm, we tend to get a lot of sweatshirts and light jackets left behind. ALSO, please make sure things are labeled; this helps us keep track of it all! Identify parent first and last names Listen to stories and make up their own Sunscreen DOES REQUIRE a blue medication form. Please see a staff member to make sure the form gets filled out, the sunscreen gets labeled, and then put in the correct bin. Practice putting on own shoes and socks Classroom Tidbits Identify body parts and Physical Growth Practice catching a ball Practice cutting with a scissors Practice writing with a pencil Preschool JuneGoals and Concepts Math: J is for June Summer has finally arrived! We have been so busy learning about plants-how they grow, how to plant them, what they need to survive and what they produce. We are busy planting and taking care of our garden and also sampling our chives and mint that are growing out there (sorry about the bad breath). With summer rushing in, field trip season is also upon us. We are now done with our daily enrichment programs for the year, this time during the day is going to be replaced by fields trips. We had a good bye party for LANA so she could go visit her friends and family in the rainforest for the summer, we made her cards and had yummy veggie pizza! You all should have received field trip packets, if you need a new one, let me know. All of our field trips are going to take place here inside our building but, we planned enough that the kids will be plenty busy! We will also start a new enrichment program for the summer; “Grow It, Try It, Like It”. This coincides with LANA, where we plant and grow our own fruits and vegetables, maintain the Language Arts: garden ourselves, and then try the final product! We are excited to extend our love for fruits and vegetables throughout the summer! During the month of June, we will be doing three different themes. The first two weeks will be spent discovering “Creepy Crawlies”. This unit is really fun to teach and the kids all love BUGS! Around here we find all different kinds of bugs on our playground. Make sure you ask your child about metamorphosis. They will learn this life cycle from egg to caterpillar to butterfly. It’s amazing! After creepy crawlies we will do a week long unit called “cattails and lily pads”. We get to learn about the swampy life of certain amphibians (frogs) and other animals that call the swamp their home. The last unit will be two weeks of “Up North”. This is one of my favorite units. We get The children will be able to play simple rhythmic-melodic patterns on classroom instruments. Personal & Social Growth: The children will assume responsibility for themselves which means that they will be held accountable for all of their actions and all of their reactions. Other: “for the love of children” Miss Stacey and Miss Jen The children will discover three principles about writing forms: *Recurring Principle-idea that writing consists of recurring figures and moves. *Generative Principle-idea that, with a limited number of letters com bined in different ways, one can generate an unlimited number of words. *Flexibility Principle-idea that the same letters can be written in different ways, but that there are limits to the acceptability of letter recognition. Music: to learn about camping, fishing, bonfires, cabins and those pesky mosquitoes. The children will demonstrate an understanding of the knowledge that numbers are used to tell how many members there are in a set. The children will know that a written symbol for a number is called a “numeral”. The children will understand that ordinal numbers designate an object’s position in the set. The children will be able to label an object’s position in a set using the correct ordinal number. The children will be able to successfully identify set sizes from one to five, using the correct numeral for each. The children will develop their fine motor skills: -control pencils/scissors/crayons AdventureCentre THE SCOOP Messy Mississippi Mud Pies June Themes Ingredients: Ending and Beginnings Chocolate Cookie Crumb Pie Shell Wrapping up our last week of school, we will take a moment to look back at Chocolate Syrup our school year. Chocolate Chips Bugs & Buddies Chocolate Ice Cream Our Adventure Centre friends love to find all those creepy crawly critters. We will be making Bug catchers and going out and collecting bugs. On our Directions: beach trip we will be exploring different insects in the sand. Cover the bottom of the pie shell with Up, Up & Away syrup. Scatter an even layer of chips in the syrup. Place in the freezer for 10 minutes I can’t wait to have a paper airplane contest to see who makes the airplane that can fly the farthest from the top of the play structure. How does it fly? We will find out by using a string, straw, and balloon. Astronauts eat space snacks, and so will we. We will make it and eat it, just like astronauts eat it, through a plastic bag with a hole in it. and take the ice cream out of the freezer for it to soften. Place a layer of ice cream over the pie shell, smooth with a knife. Place it back into the freezer for 30 minutes. Take out and smooth a layer of syrup over the ice cream. Explore Minnesota I cannot wait to explore the lake shores of Waconia. Please keep an eye out on the parent board. We will be making Minnesota White Chili as a cooking project. I will post a sign up sheet for those of you who would like to bring in some ingredients.... YUM YUM! May Highlights Some of the highlights for the AC bugs for the month of May were: 1) making beautiful pictures and flowers for Mother’s Day. 2) Making wizard hats and wands and 3) playing lots and lots of games during Alphabet Soup week. “for the love of children” Miss Tami Place it back into the freezer for another 30 minutes. Dip a knife in hot water to cut smoothly. A yummy treat we will be making this Classroom Tidbits Please fill out the Summer Fieldtrip Permission and Emergency Contact forms and return them to me ASAP Remember to empty your school-agers cubby daily! Please check the bulletin board for the weekly field trip! Please remember to have your child wear their Ladybug t-shirt on the days we will be leaving Ladybug for our class trips! If you do not remember the shirt you will be charged a $3.00 rental fee for the day!
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